Hi Charles,

Charles Berry <ccbe...@ucsd.edu> writes:
> Andreas Leha <andreas.leha <at> med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:
>
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Grant Rettke <gcr <at> wisdomandwonder.com> writes:
>> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Adriaan Sticker
>> > <adriaan.sticker <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I was wondering if it's somehow possible to give named org src buffer the
>> >> name they were give in their #+NAME tag? Now there are just called 
>> >> something like:
>> >> *Org Src test.org[ R ]*
>> >>
>> >> But if you have multiple org-src buffers opened at the same time, its 
>> >> hard to find the correct one back.
>> >
>> > Excellent idea. I've got so many small source blocks that it is too
>> > difficult to make sense of
>> > keeping multiple source block edit buffers open and limit them to one
>> > at a time eg
>> >
>> > ,----
>> > | (setq org-src-window-setup 'current-window)
>> > `----
>> >
>> > How have you come upon your workflow of keeping multiple open and what
>> > are some of the pros and
>> > cons that you've found with it?
>> 
>> I'd be interested in this as well.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Andreas
>> 
>> 
>
> Maybe I am answering the wrong question, but org-edit-src-code allows
> you to specify the buffer name:
>

You are answering my exact question.

>
> ,----[ C-h f org-edit-src-code RET ]
> | org-edit-src-code is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> | `org-src.el'.
> | 
> | (org-edit-src-code &optional CONTEXT CODE EDIT-BUFFER-NAME)
> | 
> | ...
> `----
>
> So you can do something like this:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>   (defun org-edit-src-code-plus-name ()
>     (interactive)
>     (let* ((eop  (org-element-at-point))
>            (name (or (org-element-property :name (org-element-context eop))
>                       "unnamed"))
>            (lang (org-element-property :language eop))
>            (buff-name (concat "*Org Src " name "[ " lang " ] *")))
>       (org-edit-src-code nil nil buff-name)))
> #+END_SRC
>
> which leads to a buffer named like "*Org Src My-block[ R ] *", where 
> 'My-block' is the name of the src block.
>

Thanks!  On my first quick tests that works great!  It is in my
initialization and I'll use that regularly.

Is there any drawback to this?  Otherwise I'd advocate for
org-edit-src-code doing that by default.

> HTH,

It sure does.

Thanks,
Andreas


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